Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Motoc & Ziemele: The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial Perspectives

Iulia Motoc (Judge, European Court of Human Rights) & Ineta Ziemele (Judge, Constitutional Court of Latvia) have published The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial Perspectives (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016). Contents include:
  • Dean Spielmann, Foreword
  • Iulia Motoc, Introduction
  • Luzius Wildhaber, Comments on the early years and conclusions
  • Ledi Bianku, Albania: Albania's long path towards European human rights standards
  • Alvina Gyulumyan & Davit Melkonyan, Armenia: the supremacy of the European Convention on Human Rights: Armenia's path
  • Khanlar Hajyev, Azerbaijan: the directions of influence of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Azerbaijan
  • Faris Vehabovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina: impact of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on post-conflict society of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Ksenija Turkovic & Jasna Omejec, Croatia: commitment to reform: assessing the impact of the ECtHR's Case Law on Reinforcing Democratization Efforts in Croatian Legal Order
  • Aleš Pejchal, Czech Republic: democratic tradition, legitimacy of confiscation, translation of the case law of the ECtHR in the light of the Convention in the Czech Republic
  • Julia Laffranque, Estonia: impact of the European Court of Human Rights' (Case Law) on Democracy and Rule of Law: some reflections from the Estonian perspective
  • Károly Bárd, Hungary: the Legal Order of Hungary and the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Mārtiņš Mits, Latvia: consolidating democratic changes in Latvia: the various roles of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Danutė Jočienė, Lithuania: the European Convention on Human Rights in the Lithuanian legal system
  • Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska & Ilo Trajkovski, Macedonia: the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law on the Republic of Macedonia
  • Nebojša B. Vučinić, Montenegro: the effect of the European Convention on Human Rights on the legal system of Montenegro
  • Lech Garlicki & Ireneusz Kondak, Poland: human rights between international and constitutional law
  • Iulia Motoc & Crina Kaufmann, Romania: Romania and the European Convention on Human Rights: a dialogue of judges
  • Anatoly I. Kovler, Russia: European Convention on Human Rights in Russia: fifteen years after
  • Dragoljub Popović & Tanasie Marinković, Serbia: the emergence of the human rights protection in Serbia under the European Convention on Human Rights: the experience of the first ten years
  • Milan Blaško & Mihal Kučera, Slovakia: how the Convention has helped Slovakia in its transition to a consolidated democracy
  • Jan Zobec, Slovenia: just a glass bead game?
  • Ganna Yudkivska, Ukraine: Ukraine on the way to democracy: role and achievements of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Ineta Ziemele, Conclusions